The collected works of tillin9 - Page 2

tillin9
From New York, NY / Westport, CT / #mupen64plus on freenode
Who joined March 31, 2007, 8:39 p.m.
Wrote on the subject of Forsale: SGI Indy with Ultra64 (nintendo dev) board at Nov. 9, 2008, 6:56 p.m...
As a Mupen64Plus (OSS N64 emulator) dev, I'd love to get my hands on this. I already have the lower-end N64 dev kit (for compiling N64 roms on Windows) which is how we can compile our own demo roms.

Any chance you'd be interested in a trade for anything? (I have Octane2, O2, Indigo, and lots of fibre channel stuff)
tillin9
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Wrote on the subject of Bad Trades and Other Rants at Nov. 24, 2008, 11:09 a.m...
Maybe a disclaimer might be in order? Something simple saying that Nekochan or its operators are not responsible for anything in the bazaar, and users should research potential buyers/ sellers before contemplating a transaction?

I seriously don't know why users would complain to Neko if their deal went south. I actually had a bad experience with someone on the forum which is documented in another thread. I knew it was my own fault for not investigating the user (niker) completely, since it seems I wasn't the only one here he shortchanged. It kind of really sucks, since I wasn't buying or selling anything with him, just offering to be a helpful US enthusiast to pick up local hardware and forward it to him in Slovakia at cost. I still have my $600 shipping bill (Octane2s and VBOBs are heavy) of which I was paid less than half. Not to mention the customs nonesense he put me through. I declared the items at the eBay purchase price, since custom fraud is a big thing and the USPS often will ask for receipts and proof of payment if they need to pay a claim, but of course he didn't want to pay the fees. Anyway... enough of my rant. The end result is a major reluctance to do something similar in the future. That said, the vast majority of my deals on the forum have been good and I hope one or two bad apples doesn't ruin it for everyone.

EDIT: Grammer.
tillin9
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Wrote on the subject of Bad Trades and Other Rants at Nov. 25, 2008, 7:18 p.m...
sybrfreq wrote:
... I have to wonder what tillin9 was thinking when he thought to spend $600 shipping an octane without receiving payment first. I'm sure his intentions were good.


He paid me the first $300 up front. The idea was half now, half later. I was primarily trying to be a nice forum member. He had PMed and we went through a few rounds of talk before I agreed to anything. However, while I wasn't getting any money or parts for my time, I did get something out of it.

Part of the deal was I was going to test the system both on IRIX and linux. I wanted to see how linux would work on such a high-end system, it had the Octane2 tape, floppy, CD, DMediaPro, etc. I was able to report a linux SCSI floppy bug because of that. I got a scan of a DMediaPro video option from linux which I forwarded to someone who might be able to help start a driver. Also, had there been media or its IRIX install working, I would have been able to make a copy for myself.
tillin9
From New York, NY / Westport, CT / #mupen64plus on freenode
Who joined March 31, 2007, 8:39 p.m.
Wrote on the subject of SSD and SGI Discussion Thread at Dec. 9, 2008, 5:06 a.m...
If this is an SSD with a U320 interface it should work in any SGI. Assuming proper backwards compatibility, Fuel / Tezro should work either way.

Is there a SCSI to SATA bridge known to work in SGIs? Most (affordable) SSDs have just a normal SATA interface.

P.S. I want to put a nice cheap 128GB MLC SSD -http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231221 in my O2.
tillin9
From New York, NY / Westport, CT / #mupen64plus on freenode
Who joined March 31, 2007, 8:39 p.m.
Wrote on the subject of SSD and SGI Discussion Thread at Dec. 9, 2008, 7:03 p.m...
Thanks for the Acard link, I will be getting that... eventually. As far as the write issues, they aren't really issues with the drives, but the controller chipsets. I actually have used 64GB and 128GB ssds (G. Skill and OCZ) at my old job. A number of older SATA I or other SATA chipsets with poor compatibility had concurrent read/ write issues or slow random write issues. More flexible ssd firmwares do help which is one reason why Intel's MLC drives (X-25, X-15) perform so much better. Intel also has a line of SLCs (X-25E) which do even better, but I can't really afford those.